John Markoff and David Barboza have a story at the New York Times titled "Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks".
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/technology/19china.html?hp

The attacks may have started in April 2009.

"The Chinese schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School, according to several people with knowledge of the investigation who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the inquiry."

"A report on Chinese online warfare prepared for the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission in October 2009 by Northrop Grumman identified six regions in China with military efforts to engage in such attacks. Jinan, site of the vocational school, was one of the regions."

see also: FoxNews & AP http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/18/cyberattacks-reportedly-traced-computers-chinese-schools/

Siobhan Gorman and Jessica E. Vascellaro have a story at the Wall Street Journal titled "Google Attack Linked To Asian Hackers". Presumably the reporters mean "crackers".
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704751304575080362745174130.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews

We discussed about this in January:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/166420.html

Juha..I think the vectors of attack was released was just release.. (where.."just"meaning last 48hrs)

Jacqui Cheng has a story at Ars Technica titled "Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks".
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/chinese-programmer-fingered-in-google-hack.ars

Some of those details came from a story at ft.com by Joseph Menn titled "US experts close in on Google hackers".
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a6c8332-1f52-11df-9584-00144feab49a.html
If that site requires jumping through too many hoops, you may want to try results from the below google news search.
http://www.google.com/news?gl=us&complete=0&as_epq=US+experts+close+in+on+Google+hackers&search=News&as_q=&scoring=